Rewrites, awesome opportunities, and fabulous books.
I officially broke my Sunday blogging rule. I mean, really, three weeks of not listening to me ramble? How dare I do that to all my blog readers. *insert sarcastic laughter here* Anyway, I'm back at it, ready to chatter about everything and anything that deems of importance to my mind.
On the writerly front:
It's been one heck of crazy few weeks for me. I had to rewrite yet another book, and ya know what? I am sooo glad I did. I knew this book wasn't right from the beginning, and although I loved the premise, I realized not everyone was going to appreciate the hideousness that was my heroine. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a good evil heroine once in a while (even claimed to rock out those unlikable heroines once upon a blog post ago) but the problem with this girl? She had absolutely NOTHING to make her redeemable, and for that I had to step back away from that WIP for a while before I realized how much I didn't like that girl either. Yes, it's awesome to channel your inner bad girl, believe you me, but what I fast discovered was that with the bad, I had to give her a little good while I was at it.
Hence why I rewrote an 80,000 work book in a week and a half.
Not every writer follows the same writerly path. Some write 1000 words a week, some write 10k a week. Hell, some write 10k a day. But for me, when the words are on, they are ON, and the fact that I did do that rewrite in the span of time I did doesn't make me superwoman and doesn't necessarily make the entire novel crap, either. BUT when the bones are there for the book, and you've been told the premise is good as well, then it's not so hard to rewrite a story after all. (Especially one with all the feels like this bookie had.) In a way, I guess you could say I rewrote my characters more so than anything. (Even my hero. And OH MY GOD I was blushing with this one guys. Like. PHEW! All my non-romance-writerly friends are going to read this and think: "HEATHER!!!! WHAT THE HECK IS WITH ALL THIS SMOOCHING...AND THEN SOME???? *gasp* *Giggles*
And, if you'd like to take a gander at my PINTEREST inspiration board for this one, do check it out. But here's a little Ed Sheeran to give you a feel for the story in general. And when Ed gets involved, you know it's gonna be a heavy book. (Still, I don't write anything but heavy books, so there's that.)
On the reader front:
There have been a lot of new releases lately for some of the wonderful ladies I've me through Twitter. Melody Winters wrote a gorgeous novel entitled Sachael Dreams with mermaids and delicious boys. (Okay, ONE delicious boy dang it. I refuse to acknowledge the others.) You can pick that up at Amazon now. I also read a beautiful coming of age dystopian that about shattered my heart by the time I reached the end. Missing Pieces by Meredith Tate. You can get that one at Amazon, as well.
On the professional front:
GUYS! I'm really REALLY excited about this area of my life right now. I've been blessed with a amazing opportunity to jump into the behind the publishing scenes world with BookFish Books, I couldn't have been more excited. And although I've only been at it a few weeks, I already can't see myself not being part of that amazing team of ladies.
On the home front:
With Spring on its way, and the school year two months from coming to an end, I'm trying so hard to reflect on the positive in my three daughter's lives. (Regardless of how crazy they still make me.) My oldest (who will be going to middle school next year) just got picked for honor's choir and gets to perform with a select number of other kids in her grade to sing in this big performance thing at our local high school. Sometimes, this girl amazes me with who she's become, regardless of the fact that she thinks I am the absolute weirdest mother alive because I do the occasional booty shake around the kitchen to kid's songs. I told her it was the writer in me and she said I needed to just be normal. (Normal is totally underrated, don't you think?)
My middle daughter is superwoman with her schooling lately, her teacher even telling me she's one of the smartest kiddos in the class. Well, shoot, you know where she gets that from, don't ya??? (Okay, you can stop laughing anytime now...)
And my youngest. My baby. Kindergarten round up. Next Thursday. *sniffles*. Enough said.
AND with that, I'm out, dropping the mic with this beautiful man with whom has a purpose in my writing world, but for now...it's a secret as to how he fits in.
On the writerly front:
It's been one heck of crazy few weeks for me. I had to rewrite yet another book, and ya know what? I am sooo glad I did. I knew this book wasn't right from the beginning, and although I loved the premise, I realized not everyone was going to appreciate the hideousness that was my heroine. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a good evil heroine once in a while (even claimed to rock out those unlikable heroines once upon a blog post ago) but the problem with this girl? She had absolutely NOTHING to make her redeemable, and for that I had to step back away from that WIP for a while before I realized how much I didn't like that girl either. Yes, it's awesome to channel your inner bad girl, believe you me, but what I fast discovered was that with the bad, I had to give her a little good while I was at it.
Hence why I rewrote an 80,000 work book in a week and a half.
Not every writer follows the same writerly path. Some write 1000 words a week, some write 10k a week. Hell, some write 10k a day. But for me, when the words are on, they are ON, and the fact that I did do that rewrite in the span of time I did doesn't make me superwoman and doesn't necessarily make the entire novel crap, either. BUT when the bones are there for the book, and you've been told the premise is good as well, then it's not so hard to rewrite a story after all. (Especially one with all the feels like this bookie had.) In a way, I guess you could say I rewrote my characters more so than anything. (Even my hero. And OH MY GOD I was blushing with this one guys. Like. PHEW! All my non-romance-writerly friends are going to read this and think: "HEATHER!!!! WHAT THE HECK IS WITH ALL THIS SMOOCHING...AND THEN SOME???? *gasp* *Giggles*
And, if you'd like to take a gander at my PINTEREST inspiration board for this one, do check it out. But here's a little Ed Sheeran to give you a feel for the story in general. And when Ed gets involved, you know it's gonna be a heavy book. (Still, I don't write anything but heavy books, so there's that.)
On the reader front:
There have been a lot of new releases lately for some of the wonderful ladies I've me through Twitter. Melody Winters wrote a gorgeous novel entitled Sachael Dreams with mermaids and delicious boys. (Okay, ONE delicious boy dang it. I refuse to acknowledge the others.) You can pick that up at Amazon now. I also read a beautiful coming of age dystopian that about shattered my heart by the time I reached the end. Missing Pieces by Meredith Tate. You can get that one at Amazon, as well.
On the professional front:
GUYS! I'm really REALLY excited about this area of my life right now. I've been blessed with a amazing opportunity to jump into the behind the publishing scenes world with BookFish Books, I couldn't have been more excited. And although I've only been at it a few weeks, I already can't see myself not being part of that amazing team of ladies.
On the home front:
With Spring on its way, and the school year two months from coming to an end, I'm trying so hard to reflect on the positive in my three daughter's lives. (Regardless of how crazy they still make me.) My oldest (who will be going to middle school next year) just got picked for honor's choir and gets to perform with a select number of other kids in her grade to sing in this big performance thing at our local high school. Sometimes, this girl amazes me with who she's become, regardless of the fact that she thinks I am the absolute weirdest mother alive because I do the occasional booty shake around the kitchen to kid's songs. I told her it was the writer in me and she said I needed to just be normal. (Normal is totally underrated, don't you think?)
My middle daughter is superwoman with her schooling lately, her teacher even telling me she's one of the smartest kiddos in the class. Well, shoot, you know where she gets that from, don't ya??? (Okay, you can stop laughing anytime now...)
And my youngest. My baby. Kindergarten round up. Next Thursday. *sniffles*. Enough said.
AND with that, I'm out, dropping the mic with this beautiful man with whom has a purpose in my writing world, but for now...it's a secret as to how he fits in.
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